Tesla's Tiny House Is So Cool Even Elon Musk 'Wants One Too!'

Many people might balk at the idea of living in a home that's the size of a treehouse, but
Tesla, Inc. just created a tiny house fit for its larger-than-life CEO, Elon Musk.

The
Tesla Tiny House is currently being towed on the back of a Model X around Australia to exhibit the company's products and to teach the public how to generate, store and use renewable energy for their own home, according to Electrek.

"We want to bring the Tesla Tiny House to you, so you can fully experience what it means to be self-powered," the company said.

Musk touted about the company's latest showcase on Twitter:

The Tesla boss then commented, "I want one too!" after a fan tweeted, "Sign me up for a tesla tiny house"

Naturally, the house features a slew of Tesla products, including solar panels (but not Tesla's
solar roof tiles) and the Powerwall, the company's at-home battery with a built-in inverter.

The company provided some more details about the interior of the small space to Electrek:

"Powered by 100% renewable energy via a 2 kW solar system and Powerwall, Tiny House contains a mobile design studio and configurator which can calculate how your home can generate clean energy from the sun using solar panels, storing it in Powerwall to use throughout the day and night, which can all be
monitored and controlled by the Tesla app."

Here are some other specifics of the Tesla Tiny House:

Weight – 2 tonnes

Dimensions – 6m x 2.2m x 4m

Solar generation – 2kW PV system of 6 panels

Solar storage – 1 x Tesla Powerwall

Exterior – Clad in locally sourced, chemical-free, sustainable timber

Tesla collaborated with Australian sustainable architecture firm
Archiblox on the rolling, prefabricated house. The firm posted an Instagram video of the display in Melbourne:

Sixteen-year-old climate action leader Greta Thunberg stood alongside European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Thursday in Brussels as he indicated—after weeks of climate strikes around the world inspired by the Swedish teenager—that the European Union has heard the demands of young people and pledged more than $1 trillion over the next seven years to address the crisis of a rapidly heating planet.

In the financial period beginning in 2021, Juncker said, the EU will devote a quarter of its budget to solving the crisis.

A new study reveals the health risks posed by the making, use and disposal of plastics. Jeffrey Phelps / Getty Images

With eight million metric tons of plastic entering the world's oceans every year, there is growing concern about the proliferation of plastics in the environment. Despite this, surprisingly little is known about the full impact of plastic pollution on human health.

But a first-of-its-kind study released Tuesday sets out to change that. The study, Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, is especially groundbreaking because it looks at the health impacts of every stage in the life cycle of plastics, from the extraction of the fossil fuels that make them to their permanence in the environment. While previous studies have focused on particular products, manufacturing processes or moments in the creation and use of plastics, this study shows that plastics pose serious health risks at every stage in their production, use and disposal.